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With a probability of 100% a number of people who returned to office work after working from home during COVID were going to die at work shortly afterwards. Thi
by fancyfredbot 2y ago
With a probability of 100% a number of people who returned to office work after working from home during COVID were going to die at work shortly afterwards. This is pretty much inevitable because tens of millions of people are involved and people die sometimes. What's shocking is the fact it was several days before anyone discovered Denise Prudhomme had died.
However if we consider that this was over a weekend in August when offices are quiet with many people are on holiday, and that she was in an area reserved for people working from home at other times, and that people disproportionately work from home on Friday/Monday, it's clear this won't have been the only office room which was empty over that period of time.
I think it's tragic what happened here and I'm definitely not an apologist for enforced face time in the office, or for banks, banking, or Wells Fargo, which all have real issues. What I'm trying to say is that a sad event which actually says relatively little about whether returning to office is a good idea.
To see this consider that if all employees were asked to be in the office full-time it's much more likely someone would have been in the room to help Denise, or at least notice her death. If she'd been at home then presumably nobody would have noticed (as nobody at home seems to have altered the police or her employer for several days either)